Found in Chinese Himalayas, the eastern Himalayas and Nepal at elevations around 2330 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a cylindric-fusiform tuber giving rise to an erect, slender stem that is bracteate above the leaves with 2, overlapping, mouth wide basal sheaths and a single, leaflike, linear-lanceoalte, acuminate sheath and carrying 2, basal, arising from within the basal sheath, linear-oblong, subacute leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, glabrous, narrowly winged, 4.8" [12 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts